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I'm on Faeblight also. So if you guys are still playing (Ha! I kill me) when I get my new HD, I'll see you there.

Sounds like SWG as well - pre-NGE.

You'd stand in line (yes, there were lines) for buffs and then head out to some remote spot with a group to kill stuff that would chew you up without buffs. God, I loved that game so much. This was back when MMOs felt like multiplayer games. The social interactions taking place while standing in line for buffs was crazy. You had dancers and musicians who would play music for tips (you'd join their group and listen to/watch them for a while and it would give you another buff). You had image designers who could change your character's appearance for a fee. You had doctors with their buffs and massive queues going in every direction. There were even crafters peddling armor and weapons, because that stuff deteriorated fast when you were grinding. In the meantime, people would sit around, talking, dueling, having a party while waiting for their group members to get buffed and join up.

Best part was when a Jedi showed up to get his buffs. With perma-death being in the game for that class, and Bounty Hunters able to take on bounties for Jedi players, a Jedi showing up would almost always end in a giant *********** of PvP, with one Jedi fending off a half dozen Bounty Hunters and other people joining in for some factional warfare (if the Bounty Hunters were flagged).

It was insane. Rose-tinted glasses aside, I have never experienced anything like that in any MMO since then. It was the magic of sandbox, but that sh*t died when the ADD generation started funneling money into the industry.

Edited, Jun 28th 2013 9:22pm by Mazra

Getting there. As far as I can tell there are ~4 people playing on Faeblight. one doesnt seem that interested in the game(Bean) and one has HD problems (Nadenu)

So basically just Demea and me. >_>

But hey, i know absolutely nobody that wants to play Rift so this is as good as it gets.

All i know is warrior was a blast to play when i played it. Ive been doing a lot of reading on the class currently and everything i knew and loved has been changed drastically, not to say its not fun anymore, just very different.

I had this great reaver/riftblade AoE DoT build that was just hilarious, mainly because when I got ganked with it my damage came on so slowly that the enemy thought they were safe. but i'd have an infestation bomb nested in a big list of DoTs (more dots on the target meant more infestation damage) that would go off and take a good 50-60% of their life in one tick. Usually it killed them because the other dots and my attacks had already done enough damage.

I got a lot of laughs out of that build.

Anyway, im sure your build will become more exciting eventually, and you could always try other builds out.

Ah i get what you're saying. I dont recall that ever really changing, or bothering me for that matter. Maybe some of the more magic based builds have flashier animations. My mage had decent casting animations, fwiw. Nothing as flashy and cool as Tera, i'll give you that.

Omnibus ?

The Breakfast Club!

Wait, that was CoH. Never mind.

Born to Fail.

We went with "Little Lebowski Urban Achievers".

My general critique on Rift is if you want a raider's game, go for it. If you're someone who can't contribute to that kind of play style regularly, than it'll have a relatively short life since the gear ceiling caps rather low for casuals, albeit rather grindy to do so. There are glimmers of good ideas here and there. Also a lot of "What the **** were they thinking?!" about stuff like Conquest power decay and the like. Though, I'm of the mind the enhanced cross-shard functionality they added a few months back (accidentally, mind you) is probably the best thing the game had done in a while. For those who can't create characters on Faeblight due to it being full, you can still hop over to the shard if you get an invite from someone who is there, then right click on their name in the party window the 'Join Instance'. Things like using a port or general "change your location" type things will likely send you back to your home shard, but you can just right click again. And while someone mentioned cross-server chat, you can have friends from other servers, too. Just put whoever@shard when they ask for the name in the social prompt. Only thing you really lose here is the ability to trade cross-shard and potential guild perk differences, but I think they intend to fix the former eventually, maybe. Probably doing the whole "How to not let RMT ruin it for everyone" thing.

Think the players also set up a few channels:

/join CrossEvents@Faeblight
/join CrossRaids@Faeblight

Might be mistaken on the second, but their basic idea is for people to hook up for things like cross-shard zone events, hunt rifts, etc. while the second is for PUG raiding. Granted, some people just use them to spam their random blabber, but if you're looking for something to do, talking on either might get you an invite to something.

Additionally, if you're looking to follow event starts on other shards, you can /join Events@shard. I would advise doing this on its own chat tab, but also be warned that due to the number of shards, the log bugs out at times and sometimes you'll get messages in tabs you shouldn't. Of note, people going to a PvP shard will get kicked from a group if someone from the other faction is there. As well, I believe people from a PvP shard need to be invited from someone in their faction to head to another. One of those things "Trion is looking into" but probably not priority.

Well, I'm running around on my lower level Defiants: Invigorate, Cyanosis, and Nyteshadow. I won't transfer my higher level Cleric over for now.

And Maz, definitely name your girly elf Blad.

Blad? Leaf?

Saw Ogbamf on last night, but had to log off, so didn't poke.